Artwork copyright David Dapogny. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2023.

Artwork copyright David Dapogny. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2023.

Artwork copyright David Dapogny. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2023.

Facsimile #52, 1983

David Dapogny
American (born 1945)

Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia

About the Artwork

Facsimile #52 is part of artist David Dapogny's series of drawings. The series explores the interaction of visual patterns. This drawing uses repeated images to play with the relationship between man and animals. He notes, "The title of the series refers to both the use of patterning and the implication that the drawings exist as reproductions of other objects. Both ideas are intended to refer to various historical types of works on paper."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Washington State Arts Commission.

About the Artist

David Dapogny creates drawings and photographs.
Dapogny received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the Unviersity of Illinois, Urbana in 1967. He later pursued graduate work in Linguistics at the University of Illinois. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1976. He lived in Juneau, Alaska in the early 1980s. In 1986 he began working at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, where he served for over twenty years.